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arxiv 2312.02848 v3 pith:EKVESVH3 submitted 2023-12-05 astro-ph.HE

GRB 231115A: a nearby Magnetar Giant Flare or a cosmic Short Gamma-Ray Burst?

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There are two classes of gamma-ray transients with a duration shorter than 2 seconds. One consists of cosmic short Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) taking place in the deep universe via the neutron star mergers, and the other is the magnetar giant flares (GFs) with energies of $\sim 10^{44}-10^{46}$ erg from ``nearby" galaxies. Though the magnetar GFs and the short GRBs have rather similar temporal and spectral properties, their energies ($E_{\rm \gamma,iso}$) are different by quite a few orders of magnitude and hence can be distinguished supposing the host galaxies have been robustly identified. The newly observed GRB 231115A has been widely discussed as a new GF event for its high probability of being associated with M82. Here we conduct a detailed analysis of its prompt emission observed by Fermi-GBM, and compare the parameters with existing observations. The prompt gamma-ray radiation properties of GRB 231115A, if associated with M82, nicely follow the $E_{\rm p,z}-E_{\gamma,\rm iso}$ relation of the GFs, where $E_{\rm p,z}$ is the peak energy of the gamma-ray spectrum after the redshift ($z$) correction. To be a short GRB, the reshift needs to be $\sim 1$. Though such a chance is low, the available X-ray/GeV observation upper limits are not stringent enough to further rule out this possibility. We have also discussed the prospect of convincingly establishing the magnetar origin of GRB 231115A-like events in the future.

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